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Index
Contents
A Billion Voices
Introduction
What is Putonghua?
Language Wars
Linguistic Digression #1: Language and Dialect
The Dream of a Common Language
The May Fourth Movement: The Vernacular Wars
The Critique of Chinese Characters
Linguistic Digression #2: Chinese Characters and Representation of Sounds
The Alphabet Wars: The Romanisation of Chinese
The CPC Enters the Alphabet Wars
Putonghua after 1949
Reform of the Written Language under the CPC
Pinyin: The Victor in the Romanisation Wars
Implementation of Putonghua in Broadcast Media
Media Wars: Putonghua versus Profits
A Losing Battle: The Internet
Putonghua in the Classroom
Dialect Uprisings
The Future
Notes
Photographs
Bibliography
Imprint
Eight Juxtapositions
Ezra Pound’s Orient
Preview: Nineteen Seventy-Six
Disclaimer: Chinese Don't Drink Coffee
Prologue
Studying Revolution
NOTES
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